Saturday, February 19, 2005

Blogger is bugging again and the GODVERNMENT OF 2005!

Just a quick note, as blogger is bugging on me again, I am leaving in a few hours, for three weeks, to Central America, and I have been unable to post on several issues that need your support. I am going to try and post just the links.A big one is of course, the ongoing war in Iraq, and the fact that Bush requests more money for a continual war, while he slashes veteran's benefits, and bathes Halliburton, et al in our American dollars. His priorities are so disgusting, it is well, disgusting.and here, is another very important subject on a battle on the west coast, to have the words Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgendered, put back into the name of a conference for Suicide prone LGBT teens.The BUSH administration is forcing the organizers of the conference to take out LGBT. They are using the same tactic that was used on NPR re the Buster episode--WHO is funding you, the government, or in 2005--the GODVERNMENT!!!What I found especially appalling was this:"Studies show that LGBT suicide rates are three times higher than the national norm, with suicides among teens the highest.But the name change was not the only thing the Administration called for. It also wanted a session on faith-based suicide prevention."FAITH BASED!!!From the GODVERNMENT!!more from the article"We find this behavior on the part of our government intolerable," Bloodworth wrote in an e-mail to colleagues that called for the government to "end this shameful marginalization of an already marginalized at-risk population." The pressure on conference organizers by the Administration was slammed by gay rights advocates."It is unconscionable for politics to get into the way of life and death health care gay LGBT young people," Human Rights Campaign spokesperson Steven Fisher told 365Gay.com.."

It is unconsciousable that our GODVERNMENT would hinder help for LGBT teens. Maybe if Jeff Gannon/Duckert had some counseling as a teen, he wouldn't have turned out so f*ed up at 40.Yes, fight back, and if you haven't been to Pax Romano'sblog, go there, and check out the Canadian Prime Minister's speech on their Civil Marriage Act.got to go!

Quote of the Day
"When we get back to the states... ," NBC news anchor Brian Williams, forgetting he was in the United States

"...all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." ---Abraham Lincoln, First Innaugural Address......USA 2005--BE A BETTER ANGEL

FOR THE WAR? CLICK BELOW. AGAINST THE WAR? CLICK BELOW

"All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood to do the fighting for them."
--Emma Goldman, 1917

"When we get injured, all it says is `one soldier wounded,' " Specialist Acosta said, echoing others at Walter Reed. "Not that a soldier has lost an arm or a leg, or how hard that is."

"The story of what we've done in the postwar period is remarkable," Nethercutt, R-Wash. "It is a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day."

THE CHILDREN OF IRAQ-- NEED YOU

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy
are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS." Mahatma Gandhi

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." --Bertrand Russell

"My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred." --Albert Einstein

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." --Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967